I'm Your Man (2021)

Dan Stevens: Tom

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• Alma : When I was 14, I went to a party. I sat alone at night on the terrace. My classmates were dancing in the cellar. I looked out at the townhouses and suddenly I knew that God didn't exist. And I became an atheist. I made a vow to myself back then. If I'm in an airplane that's on fire, I'm not going to pray. I won't ask the Lord for help, just out of fear. Because I don't believe in God. Do you understand?

  Tom : Yes.

  Alma : Really?

  Tom : You won't allow yourself to become close to a machine out of desperation and longing for human contact.

  Alma : There's a gulf between us. We can pretend it doesn't exist, pretend the illusion is just another form of reality, but certain things highlight just how deep and insurmountable that gulf is.

  Tom : What things?

  Alma : Things you don't understand. Things that make you sad the second you think of them, even if you don't want to. Things you long for or missed out on that will never return.

  Tom : Can you show me these things?

• Tom : Don't humans say "love knows no bounds"?

  Alma : That's always been a lie.

• Tom : Most people would pray if their airplane was about to crash. It's human to do that.

• Alma : This was all for fucking nothing! Three years of research up in smoke!

  Tom : The study is important for the people. It shows that there was always deeper meaning. That people have always played with words, always created poetry for poetry's sake alone. Humanity should be informed of that and they will be. The outcome remains the same

  Alma : Maybe for humanity, but not for me. Not for me!

  Tom : So the tears in your eyes only relate to yourself and your career? They're egotistical tears.

• Tom : You've lost a child. At your age, you probably won't be able to have another one. You're sad because you would've liked to have experienced that. You feel cast aside because Julian is having another baby and will forget this one. Maybe you think of your father, that you might end up as lonely as he is and you won't even have children to take care of you. I can understand that. It's very easy to understand.

  Alma : It sounds banal when you say it. Banal and self-indulgent and pathetic.

  Tom : It is pathetic. Your pain is pathetic because it's relative. But it's also not pathetic, because it's part of you and that's why I love it.

• Mitarbeiterin : You may not realize, but your treat Tom like a machine.

  Alma : Yes, I definitely realized that.

  Mitarbeiterin : Why do you think that is?

  Alma : Because he is a machine.

  Mitarbeiterin : Could you be underestimating him? Tom, how does Alma's treatment make you feel?

  Alma : Don't act you don't know. He can't feel anything. He has no feelings. He's programmed to simulate emotion, but has no real emotions.

  Mitarbeiterin : Why don't we let Tom answer?

  Tom : I think Alma needs more time.

  Alma : According to our extensive analysis, Tom is the partner you have the best chances of being happy with.

  Alma : Tom is programmed to fulfill my needs. He's just an extension of my own self. Don't you see?

  Mitarbeiterin : Do you seek friction in relationships?

  Alma : Yes! Of course I do.

  Mitarbeiterin : Tom, would you consider creating more friction, if it's important to Alma? If she...

  Alma : Okay. I'm done. Either you're an idiot, or you're a robot as well.

  [pause] 

  Alma : Are you a robot?

• Tom : What does it feel like to have an orgasm?

  Alma : It's... it's like dissolving. You dissolve and... you're part of something bigger.

• Tom : I just stood there. They don't see me as a danger. I don't smell like a human.

  Alma : What do you smell like for the deer?

  Tom : They don't even notice me. I smell like nothing to them.

• Frau im Café : They're totally oblivious of their surroundings. Crazy, right? They've been watching epic fail videos for 45 minutes.

  Tom : Short clips showing footage of people failing to implement a plan. Could you explain to me what is funny about that?

  Frau im Café : Well, I mean, it's just funny to see someone trip, or fall down, or fall off something.

  Tom : What is funny about it?

  Frau im Café : It looks so silly. I don't know. I can't explain it.

  Tom : But no one dies. That wouldn't be funny. Would it?

  Frau im Café : No, that definitely wouldn't be funny. Dying is rarely funny, right?

• Alma : [Alma finds Tom in the museum at night]  How did you get in here?

  Tom : I'm a computer system. The lock system is a computer. We help each other out once on a while.

  Alma : Really?

  Tom : No. I took your spare card.

• Jule : Essentially we're trying to prove that even in 4,000 BC, in the earliest written texts which have long been seen as purely administrative, there was actually poetry, use of lyric and metaphor.

  Tom : And that man does not live by bread alone.

  Jule : Yes. Not even back then.